Brandon Marchand

 Brandon K. Marchand is a New York based actor living a real life in a world of the absurd.

High points:

-Junior Year of High School in suburban Wisconsin, explanation needed? Brandon lead a protest in high heels for an entire day, turning the entire school into an uproar, and changed Oak Creek High School forever, resurrecting the GSA (gay/straight alliance) club and expanding to all members of the LGBTQIA+.

-Senior Year of High School, first ever male color guard member in the marching band— Oak Creek Marching Knights after much adversity from the principals and even the school board themselves. Mr. Gregg and Ms. Fuchs defended and supported Brandon

-Junior Year of College, Brandon performed as “Dippy” in the Black Box staged reading of Dead End, playing a role of a character much younger than himself who has Cretinism. This allowed Brandon to dive into work on a lifelong goal of his to investigate and learn about mental illness, learn how to isolate, enhance or regress certain developmental functions in the human brain and body, and create a real believable, breathing, captivating and lovable human being.

-Post-College, Brandon was cast in the world premiere Immersive Horror Experience that took place in Red Hook in 2017 called “This is Real” (ran for 500 PERFORMANCES) where he performed for the cast of The Lion King, Titus Burgess, Neil Patrick Harris (& Co.), as well as made News with visits from New York 1, BuzzFeed, and some online publicized review blogs. He played the Greeter which set the tone for the show, blindfolding, binding with rope, and leading the guests to their ultimate demise. The Greeter unfortunately was also their only sense of help in the experience, giving hints occasionally in riddles- v helpful. Brandon also was a swing for the show and enjoyed taking on the challenge of playing the actor playing the character, and was successful to the point the stage manager exclaimed she couldn’t tell whether it was Brandon or the normal cast member in the role of Psycho A.